Now this could be challenging to iron white shirts with.
Want to try some bus surfing?
Missionary bag ready for a day's deliveries.
Not a bad looking kitchen.
The bedroom of 4 elders - tight space!
The ancient and modern shower head - sometimes cold, sometimes hot!YAY!! i loved reading your letter!! I´m glad i´m here. Oh, Dad, our shower has the old pipe that you showered with. We of course now have a "high tech" shower head. and the water goes through this square water heater on the other side. For the most part our water is pretty warm, just our water pressure is pretty bad. but i dont mind. it is still a shower :)
Ok some quick requests and info., if you ever send a box, be sure to use a customs report (its a green paper) and be honest. but just say there is nothing of value in there just missionary supplies (i.e. lint or something hahaha) You don't have to send it with the green paper, but then i dont pay customs.
Ok now for the week report :) so this week has been pretty off and on. So one experience that i want to be sure and tell about is with a visit we had with a less active member. We had a visit with her last week when we were helping the elders quorum president do his home teaching. We invited her to church but she didnt come last week. So we visited with her. just us as missionaries. And we had a really really neat experience. So we were visiting, and the real reason came out why she didnt come. (side background, she is a single mother with two kids) She had recently lost her job, and had no money. She had made bread that morning, and sold it for a couple pesos. Her friend had brought over some bread in the evening and she was planning to cook it and eat it with her family for their meal for the day. When we got there she was just finishing cooking it. She told us this and we taught her about the church. We felt inclined to promise her that if she came to church, she would find work, her family would be blessed, and she would be blessed with the strength to quit smoking. I shared about David and how he received blessings. She then took one of the three loafs of bread, cut it and said a long these lines, you are representatives of Christ, please eat. We couldn't say no, and we didnt want to eat a ton. She cut the slices and gave it to us. It made me think of the women and the prophet and how she kept having food to make more bread things. It was a super neat experience. She came to church yesterday :) It was a humbling experience, to see someone with nothing, give to us, with the faith that she would be supported. I want to be more like that.
The rest of the week was pretty rough. So i can pretty much now teach the lessons (with difficulty, and not very clear) and talk about the gospel with people but i am having a TON of difficulty understanding when they are telling me about their life. I spend all my efforts trying to translate just parts of what they are saying, and then it is difficult to listen to the promptings. It is hard to discern what to say because i´m not sure if i understood them right and i dont want to say something that has nothing to do with what they were really saying. It was a pretty down week. We had about two days where all our appointments fell through because the people didnt answer their doors or ¨"were not there". My knee started to hurt more, and ya, it is rough, but i know this is the Lords work. He has a plan. Missionary work is hard. i just need to put my shoulder to the wheel and push. I hope the language can come soon so i can start teaching with the spirit. I don't want to waste the Lords time.
One exciting thing is this week one of our investigators should be having his baptismal interview! Hopefully all goes well. well i am running out of time. The food is great! well the food that the members cook. hahhaa! My stomach is taking really well to it (definitely a blessing, i have eaten food that i know was not clean, used utensils that were not clean at all but i just eat and use them because i know the Lord will protect if i am doing what i am supposed to).
The branch is pretty small so during the week we usually only get 3 or 4 (if we are lucky) meals with members. Breakfast, i usually eat either an egg or oatmeal. I have gotten pretty good at making oatmeal taste pretty good (just throw on some dulce de leche, or this good jam or something like that). Lunch is either rice or pasta made by yours truly.. the elders hahaha. One day we had no tomato sauce or anything to spice up the rice, so between four elders we ate 1 kilo of white rice! yeah!! hahaha. One day we had fried fake hot dogs with rice hahaha. oh!! One day we made empanadas and it was WAY yummy (the elders were jealous of my empanada making skillz) thanks mom!! I know i´m losing weight, but i don't know if it is from walking a ton every day or if it is from lack of food. I´m never super hungry or starving (except fast sunday, which still is not that bad). Oh!! last week i had my first asada/o :) :) :) WAY WAY WAY yummy!!!!! well. But i do still like getting letters more than anything :) I hope all is well. I love you! keep me posted on the family happenings. May God bless you this week
Love Elder Kevin Rowse
Ok some quick requests and info., if you ever send a box, be sure to use a customs report (its a green paper) and be honest. but just say there is nothing of value in there just missionary supplies (i.e. lint or something hahaha) You don't have to send it with the green paper, but then i dont pay customs.
Ok now for the week report :) so this week has been pretty off and on. So one experience that i want to be sure and tell about is with a visit we had with a less active member. We had a visit with her last week when we were helping the elders quorum president do his home teaching. We invited her to church but she didnt come last week. So we visited with her. just us as missionaries. And we had a really really neat experience. So we were visiting, and the real reason came out why she didnt come. (side background, she is a single mother with two kids) She had recently lost her job, and had no money. She had made bread that morning, and sold it for a couple pesos. Her friend had brought over some bread in the evening and she was planning to cook it and eat it with her family for their meal for the day. When we got there she was just finishing cooking it. She told us this and we taught her about the church. We felt inclined to promise her that if she came to church, she would find work, her family would be blessed, and she would be blessed with the strength to quit smoking. I shared about David and how he received blessings. She then took one of the three loafs of bread, cut it and said a long these lines, you are representatives of Christ, please eat. We couldn't say no, and we didnt want to eat a ton. She cut the slices and gave it to us. It made me think of the women and the prophet and how she kept having food to make more bread things. It was a super neat experience. She came to church yesterday :) It was a humbling experience, to see someone with nothing, give to us, with the faith that she would be supported. I want to be more like that.
The rest of the week was pretty rough. So i can pretty much now teach the lessons (with difficulty, and not very clear) and talk about the gospel with people but i am having a TON of difficulty understanding when they are telling me about their life. I spend all my efforts trying to translate just parts of what they are saying, and then it is difficult to listen to the promptings. It is hard to discern what to say because i´m not sure if i understood them right and i dont want to say something that has nothing to do with what they were really saying. It was a pretty down week. We had about two days where all our appointments fell through because the people didnt answer their doors or ¨"were not there". My knee started to hurt more, and ya, it is rough, but i know this is the Lords work. He has a plan. Missionary work is hard. i just need to put my shoulder to the wheel and push. I hope the language can come soon so i can start teaching with the spirit. I don't want to waste the Lords time.
One exciting thing is this week one of our investigators should be having his baptismal interview! Hopefully all goes well. well i am running out of time. The food is great! well the food that the members cook. hahhaa! My stomach is taking really well to it (definitely a blessing, i have eaten food that i know was not clean, used utensils that were not clean at all but i just eat and use them because i know the Lord will protect if i am doing what i am supposed to).
The branch is pretty small so during the week we usually only get 3 or 4 (if we are lucky) meals with members. Breakfast, i usually eat either an egg or oatmeal. I have gotten pretty good at making oatmeal taste pretty good (just throw on some dulce de leche, or this good jam or something like that). Lunch is either rice or pasta made by yours truly.. the elders hahaha. One day we had no tomato sauce or anything to spice up the rice, so between four elders we ate 1 kilo of white rice! yeah!! hahaha. One day we had fried fake hot dogs with rice hahaha. oh!! One day we made empanadas and it was WAY yummy (the elders were jealous of my empanada making skillz) thanks mom!! I know i´m losing weight, but i don't know if it is from walking a ton every day or if it is from lack of food. I´m never super hungry or starving (except fast sunday, which still is not that bad). Oh!! last week i had my first asada/o :) :) :) WAY WAY WAY yummy!!!!! well. But i do still like getting letters more than anything :) I hope all is well. I love you! keep me posted on the family happenings. May God bless you this week
Love Elder Kevin Rowse
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